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IbogaProject

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2. I moved to linux, mostly

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Wed Oct 8, 2025, 12:56 AM

Yesterday

Kid, a senior in HS, still uses windows, Wife and our TV use Macs and I'm on linux. The Mrs MacBook has windows on it, only use it for Tax software. I just haven't gotten a good Virtual Machine of Windows running on my Linux laptop yet.

For anyone struggling with an aging Windows computer, linux is the way to go. Linux has really matured over 30 some years now. There are some "immutable" versions, that update smoothly like Mac and Windows and can be set up mostly Google free, outside of youtube, which is google owned.

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